Ray's Twin Thread of Awesomness!

What a day! It was a whirlwind. Went to sleep last night about 2 or 3 (not sure, but I'm sure I could find my last post from last night lol), woke up at 5, and was at the hospital about 7. There's construction going on at our hospital, so I dropped off my wife Melissa at the front, parked the car (luckily only the second floor of the garage) and had to take a shuttle back to the hospital. Right as I was going to get out, I realized I forgot our bag. So had to take the shuttle back, run like hell back to my car and back so I could take the same shuttle back and not have to wait for another. I made it!

So we finally check in at 7:30. Next thing I know, they're talking about checking on the babies and getting ready to send my wife to the anesthesiologist within the hour. We both definitely weren't prepared to have things move this fast lol. Well when it comes to checking on them, they can't find our boy's heartbeat. Turns out that monitor wasn't working. So they get a new one, and they still can't find it. They bring in an ultrasound machine and find they've spun sideways and they're transverse.

So they finally get their heartbeats after 1 1/2 hours. We get the run down on the procedure and anesthesia, etc. because it has to be a c section. So I suit up and wait. I'm finally called in to the OR and it was so surreal. The curtain was up, they were operating on her and they had a seat next to her for me. I can't explain what as I feeling as I sat with my wife. I didn't look over the curtain, although I was tempted lol. But Melissa didn't want me to, so I didn't. One of the doctors said "uterine" and we knew it was time. They call it out when their about to cut thru her uterus.

It was then where the most wonderful feeling I'd ever felt happened. Moments after he called it out, I heard my daughter cry out for the first time as she was pulled out. I don't care what anyone says: I immediately broke down and cried right there. There really is nothing that can compare to that moment. And we are one the few that were able to prolong that moment and feeling, as 20-30 seconds later, I heard my son cry for the first time. It went by so fast. But it was so amazing! At this point, normally I'd follow the babies to the nursery. But Melissa needed me there. So I ended up staying until she sewn back up.

Its been a long day! But Melissa is finally getting some well deserved rest!

Stupid phone/site won't let me upload this pic!
But Matthew was also born at 11:28 at 18.25", and 6 lbs 9 oz. He had a little trouble breathing at first and was sent to the nicu. But it was a very minor issue and he soon joined us in our room 6 hours later.

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